Mon, Thur, Fri: 8:30am - 5pmTue, Wed: 8:30am - 9pmSat: 9:30am - 5pmSun: 1pm - 5pm
The Britannia Art Gallery showcases the work of local artists in the newly renovated space in the Adult Lounge of the Library at Britannia Community Services Centre at 1661 Napier Street (at Commercial Drive) in Vancouver. Each month we show 2-dimensional work on the walls and 3-dimensional work in the display case. Interested community members are invited to attend an opening reception on the first Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Artists are usually in attendance making openings a great opportunity to talk to artists about their work. Openings are free and the public is welcome to attend.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Aug 4, 6:30-8:30
Sculptor Oliver Harwood has exhibited his work in both east and west coast provinces since 1996. He has been awarded several public art commissions in BC, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
As an artist, he is driven to explore the hidden realms of humanity from our complex connections to our environment, to the deep stirrings of emotions. His recent work uses the boat form to contain and transport symbols of human development and human states of mind. In his work the boat form is becoming a more organic, creature-like metaphor for the order and entropy of the organic world.
Harwood seeks to find a balance between the obvious and the abstract, to generate dialogue that reaches across cultural differences and speaks about humanity.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Aug 4, 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition by Olivia Blander and Oliver Harwood
Olivia Blander's day job is playing the cello in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra but her other passion is photography. For her travel photography is a challenge - not to take the standard scenic shots but to show the life of a place. This exhibition presents her photographs shot in Cuba and China during 2009, two worlds very different from her own and from each other.
These two countries that are in many ways defined by their communist regimes are however, culturally, are as different as day and night. In China, one is immersed in a sea of market places, excess in production, avantgarde architecture in large, fast-moving cities and cutting edge technology. But in Cuba's largest city, one sees empty store shelves and crumbling buildings - almost nothing new having been built in the last several decades. There are perhaps even greater contrasts in the attitudes of the people and the social structure of communities.